When you concentrate, squint or frown or smile the muscles in your face contract. After years of frequent contraction combined with other environmental and lifestyle factors, lines and wrinkles will form and eventually become permanent. When the muscles in our face move, a message is sent from the brain via nerves to the muscles, instructing them to contract. Anti-wrinkle injectables are a natural protein that works by interrupting this process, leaving those muscles unable to crease the skin.

When you concentrate, squint or frown or smile the muscles in your face contract. After years of frequent contraction combined with other environmental and lifestyle factors, lines and wrinkles will form and eventually become permanent. When the muscles in our face move, a message is sent from the brain via nerves to the muscles, instructing them to contract. Anti-wrinkle injectables are a natural protein that works by interrupting this process, leaving those muscles unable to crease the skin.

Anti-wrinkles injectables are mainly used for the face. Forehead wrinkles, crow’s feet lines around the eyes, and the “11 lines” between the eyebrows ( the “glabellar”), are the most popular areas however other uses include lifting eyebrows, smokers lines on the upper lip, bunny lines on the side of the nose, decreasing the “orange peel” appearance of the chin and lifting the corners of the mouth if they are down-turning.

Of course! The ‘frozen’ look many of us associate with anti-wrinkle injectables is only caused when too much toxin is administered into one area. During your consultation I will discuss how the treatment can be used for subtle effects so no one need know your secret.

The injections themselves are relatively painless, as both the needles used, and the volumes injected, are very small. As with any injections, small areas of bruising may be seen afterwards, but this is unusual, and if present they are invariably mild, and easily concealed if desired.
The injections usually start to produce an effect within 2-3 days, but it may take up to 2 weeks for maximum benefits to be seen. The benefits of treatment usually last between 3 and 6 months.

Before you leave the clinic at the end of your treatment, we will book you in for a free check-up 2 weeks later, so that we can review the results of your treatment once it has taken full effect. We can also book your next appointment in 3-4 months times to ensure you maintain your new look.